The treasurer quietly let Taylor bang on and on about the inability to afford a tax cut, and then he slapped down two pretty decent tax cuts. I haven’t seen a plan come together this well since Road Runner painted a tunnel on a cliff face. www.theguardian.com/business/gro... - ThreadSky

grogsgamut.bsky.social • 42 days ago

The treasurer quietly let Taylor bang on and on about the inability to afford a tax cut, and then he slapped down two pretty decent tax cuts.

I haven’t seen a plan come together this well since Road Runner painted a tunnel on a cliff face.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/mar/25/australia-federal-budget-2025-graphs-tax-cuts-economy-ndis-deficit

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allanegan1.bsky.social•42 days ago

Not a Road-runner!

pceebee23.bsky.social•42 days ago

but not one $ for Jobseeker which is already unsustainably low... full neo-con rubbish from Labor

healthbud.bsky.social•42 days ago

💯

viktx.bsky.social•42 days ago

Beep beep 😅🤣😂

paul-willis.bsky.social•42 days ago

Angus really is a numpty.

aniblax.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yeah. At least he’s good at that.

westk59.bsky.social•42 days ago

Taylor is incompetent hate to see him get his hands on the treasury.

cupro-nickel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Well done Angus

davidrafferty.bsky.social•42 days ago

I think I’m going to have to adopt your two-level view of Australian politics. There’s the level of “this is what an intelligent, serious Government would do”. But since that has never happened in our lifetime, we’ll adjust expectations down and look for “basic competence amid abject cowardice”.

grogsgamut.bsky.social•42 days ago

Oh I very much point out the cowardice in my column

greg1953.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yeah, I love a bit of Trompe-l'œil.
Angus is a great coyote.

fritzymcfritz.bsky.social•42 days ago

I think that's called a classic wedge manoeuvre

poverty.pro•42 days ago

I didn't see anything about people who collect youth allowance/austudy/jobseeker/disability pension because they can't get enough work or work enough. Guessing anyone who relies on Centrelink deserves another neoliberal kick in the teeth

grogsgamut.bsky.social•42 days ago

Absolutely nothing for them. Completely nothing

ericbanana.bsky.social•42 days ago

Shocking, absolutely shocking.

But the fossil fuel miners ….

They are laughing

poverty.pro•42 days ago

Gotta fund Gina Rinehart's campaigns against them somehow

beckjoinyourunion.bsky.social•42 days ago

That’s not what people needed or wanted to hear. It’s baffling.

justalpal.bsky.social•42 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/traceism.bsky.social/post/3ljwk4tkbg22y

serehfas.bsky.social•42 days ago

Be hard for anyone to have a surplus again after the Stage 3 tax cuts.

66jayel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Tapping into sources via PRRT and other big multi-nationals would be a start.

serehfas.bsky.social•42 days ago

Mm hmm!

scottudoit.bsky.social•42 days ago

Made him look 44 percent sillier, 44 percent..

lizinoz.bsky.social•42 days ago

Thank you for your graph showing the PRRT revenue vs the spirits excise - very informative - I imagine the smokers would contribute even more

chequers7.bsky.social•42 days ago

Looks like a election budget to snooker the #LNP so that they don't match the Medicare spending, they will appear to be miserly plus LNP then have to find the money to spend on their so-far-absent policies

spoonbill.bsky.social•42 days ago

That was Wile E. Coyote!

tomarrr.bsky.social•42 days ago

That was a classic.

At least the article doesn't contain any mistakes 😉

https://youtu.be/heZFx8WRKac?si=2-tj0nTyiMRnaqAX

tomarrr.bsky.social•42 days ago

"Other" mistakes, I meant to say, speaking of mistakes 😆

skwisgaar.bsky.social•42 days ago

News may not have yet reached the Commonwealth that I've recently quit drinking. A sizeable and unexpected downturn in excise revenue shall hit the budget.

fraucernik.bsky.social•42 days ago

Sarah Ferguson to Anus , so the increase of PS is now 41,000 and not 36,000 . Are you sacking 41 ,000 PS ? Yes , yes , so is that your announcement. Anus : I am not making announcements on your program, we get the figures back to when we were in Government. It’s like the 44% cheaper statement 🤣🤣🤣

gollymolly.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yep and he said on channel 9 that they would be cutting 41000.

bullman53.bsky.social•42 days ago

More drivel and BS from Taylor. His idea of tax relief is still free lunches for bosses paid for by their staff that they are stealing wages from

maconnolly888.bsky.social•42 days ago

Generally OK
They did the 2nd-worst thing they could though: left gas companies sweeping up the cash as they hoover up all our gas and sell it overseas, leaving none for us (except WA)
They will now do the worst thing - approve Burrup gas field in WA
This will create extra emissions for decades

equanimity1961.bsky.social•42 days ago

Nice analogy. I wonder what Spud McTaterhead will pull out of the Acme gift box on Thursday.

aniblax.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yeah, but I actually felt a bit sorry for Wiley Coyote.

lizgracie.bsky.social•42 days ago

Meanwhile, over at Crikey, Keane is having conniptions calling it a big spending, tax cutting budget. Blimey.

grogsgamut.bsky.social•42 days ago

meh

lizgracie.bsky.social•42 days ago

Exactly.

tooheymatthew.bsky.social•42 days ago

That's a killer line, Greg. Will provide laughs for several days, I reckon. Thanks!
#Budget2025
#AusPol

margaretrose.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes. A great line. 🤣🤣

olthwaiteeric.bsky.social•42 days ago

Thanks.

Nothing in there will change my feelings about Sh!tlite.

#DitchTheDuopoly

paulobear.bsky.social•42 days ago

You’re a bit tough, E.

olthwaiteeric.bsky.social•42 days ago

Genocide
Emissions
Species extinction
Housing
Not taxing fossil fuels

walthawtin.bsky.social•42 days ago

Wait until you see the other guys. You'll love them.

olthwaiteeric.bsky.social•42 days ago

B:1

milanx.bsky.social•41 days ago

#ALP proposed the Mining Super-Profit tax in 2013 and lost the election.
They also consistently warned of a looming housing crisis, proposing Neg. Gearing & Capital Gains reforms, in 2016 *and* 2019 ... lost both times.
Now #Albo has set records for renewables investment.
N.B. Fossil Fuel revenues

genocid.ing•41 days ago

what a great list of things labor has failed to do

milanx.bsky.social•41 days ago

Failed to undo every instance of vandalism the #LNP committed quickly enough for their critics?

olthwaiteeric.bsky.social•41 days ago

Still not clear to me who screwed whom

Sounds to me like Howard was West Coast and Gillard East Coast.

milanx.bsky.social•41 days ago

Howard's 3 million tonne per year contract was locked in at bargain basement prices till *2031*. (SMH 2017)

What's the source of your excerpt

lucytartan.bsky.social•42 days ago

Angus Taylor is what AI makes out of John Elliott slopped together with Beaker from the muppet show

loulouwho.bsky.social•42 days ago

TBH Taylor is an idiot 😂🤣😂🤣😂

robrichards.bsky.social•42 days ago

Jolly japes

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